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63
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12231
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10368
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324

Yahai Lu publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yahai Lu sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 117 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Yahai Lu D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yahai Lu sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yahai Lu is affiliated with Peking University in China, with a research focus spanning environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and engineering. Their work encompasses various subfields, including building and construction, environmental chemistry, ecology, environmental engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The primary topics addressed in their research include anaerobic digestion and biogas production, methane hydrates and related phenomena, microbial community ecology and physiology, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, plant and animal studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Yahai Lu has published research in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Environmental Microbiology Reports
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yahai Lu include:

  • Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Successional action of Bacteroidota and Firmicutes in decomposing straw polymers in a paddy soil, 2023, Environmental Microbiome
  • Coexistence patterns of soil methanogens are closely tied to methane generation and community assembly in rice paddies, 2021, Microbiome
  • Rare Species-Driven Diversity-Ecosystem Multifunctionality Relationships are Promoted by Stochastic Community Assembly, 2022, mBio

Yahai Lu has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Kailin Gao
  • Shuo Jiao
  • Xingxuan Xia
  • Langsha Yi
  • Wei Zhang

Best Publications

  • Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China.

    Shuo Jiao;Yunfeng Yang;Yiqin Xu;Jie Zhang

  • In situ stable isotope probing of methanogenic archaea in the rice rhizosphere

    Yahai Lu;Yahai Lu;Ralf Conrad

  • Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields.

    Shuo Jiao;Shuo Jiao;Yahai Lu

  • Characterization of methane emissions from rice fields in Asia. III. Mitigation options and future research needs

    R. Wassmann;R. Wassmann;R. S. Lantin;H. U. Neue;L. V. Buendia

  • Carbon cycling in rice field ecosystems in the context of input, decomposition and translocation of organic materials and the fates of their end products (CO2 and CH4)

    Makoto Kimura;Jun Murase;Yahai Lu

  • Direct interspecies electron transfer accelerates syntrophic oxidation of butyrate in paddy soil enrichments

    Huijuan Li;Jiali Chang;Pengfei Liu;Li Fu

  • Soil pH and temperature regulate assembly processes of abundant and rare bacterial communities in agricultural ecosystems.

    Shuo Jiao;Yahai Lu

  • Succession of bacterial populations during plant residue decomposition in rice field soil.

    Junpeng Rui;Jingjing Peng;Yahai Lu

  • Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Methane Emissions in a Flooded Rice Soil

    Yahai Lu;Reiner Wassmann;Heinz-Ulrich Neue;Changyong Huang

  • Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems.

    Shuo Jiao;Shuo Jiao;Yahai Lu;Gehong Wei

  • Life without light: microbial diversity and evidence of sulfur- and ammonium-based chemolithotrophy in Movile Cave.

    Yin Chen;Liqin Wu;Rich Boden;Alexandra Hillebrand

  • Conductive Fe3O4 Nanoparticles Accelerate Syntrophic Methane Production from Butyrate Oxidation in Two Different Lake Sediments

    Jianchao Zhang;Yahai Lu

  • Dynamics of the Methanogenic Archaeal Community during Plant Residue Decomposition in an Anoxic Rice Field Soil

    Jingjing Peng;Zhe Lü;Junpeng Rui;Yahai Lu

  • Contribution of plant-derived carbon to soil microbial biomass dynamics in a paddy rice microcosm

    Yahai Lu;Akira Watanabe;Makoto Kimura

  • Structure and activity of bacterial community inhabiting rice roots and the rhizosphere.

    Yahai Lu;Dirk Rosencrantz;Werner Liesack;Ralf Conrad

  • Core Microbiota in Agricultural Soils and Their Potential Associations with Nutrient Cycling.

    Shuo Jiao;Yiqin Xu;Jie Zhang;Xin Hao

  • Microbial mechanism for rice variety control on methane emission from rice field soil

    Ke Ma;Qiongfen Qiu;Yahai Lu

  • Detecting active methanogenic populations on rice roots using stable isotope probing

    Yahai Lu;Tillmann Lueders;Michael W. Friedrich;Ralf Conrad

  • Methane Emissions and Mitigation Options in Irrigated Rice Fields in Southeast China

    W. F. Lu;W. Chen;B. W. Duan;W. M. Guo

  • Niche differentiation of ammonia oxidizers and nitrite oxidizers in rice paddy soil.

    Xiubin Ke;Roey Angel;Yahai Lu;Ralf Conrad

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Conrad
Ralf Conrad Max Planck Society
Reiner Wassmann
Reiner Wassmann International Atomic Energy Agency
Makoto Kimura
Makoto Kimura Nagoya University
Wolf-Rainer Abraham
Wolf-Rainer Abraham Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Fusuo Zhang
Fusuo Zhang China Agricultural University
J. Colin Murrell
J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia
Michael W. Friedrich
Michael W. Friedrich University of Bremen
Pil Joo Kim
Pil Joo Kim Gyeongsang National University
Peter Christie
Peter Christie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fang-Jie Zhao
Fang-Jie Zhao Nanjing Agricultural University

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